Anchovy Paste – do you like it, what do you do with it?
Anchovy Paste – do you like it, what do you do with it?
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Lunches
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Dahl Sambar 31p a portion, diet ideas, progress today & other kitchen happenings
There has been a lot going on in the kitchen today. Remember all those plums I had earlier in the year? I got a pot of them out of the freezer and cooked them up with a tsp of mixed spice and had them for breakfast with 25g porridge. Then lunchtime I had a soup. In...
Lemon Dahl from 18p to 24p depending on if you use value or basmati rice
Any of the dahls could be used as a side dish with something else. They all freeze brilliantly and reheat well in the microwave, so great for work if you have a microwave there. This one is fragrant with lemon
Coconut Dahl, from 17p to 23p a portion depending on if you use value or basmati rice
Here is another dahl recipe, a coconutty one this time. I like to use brown basmati rice with most things, if you wanted to use value rice, it would reduce the cost to just 17p a portion. This is a very quick meal, from packet to table in 20 minutes, and most of that time is the lentils simmering, so you could get on with something else
Potato and Onion Layer
A simple combination made a little bit special by slicing and grilling to get crispy bits
Herb Bread, 6p a serving
250g flour mixed with yeast, water and a handful of something else makes four portions of lovely bread
Spiced Parsnip Soup 17p a serving. Serve with tomato scone or herb bread
This is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. Serve with either herb bread or tomato scones.
Spring Green Pesto
I tried Jack’s recipe for Kale Pesto this week. I didn’t have any kale, but I did have some spring greens that needed using, so in they went. Jack used the soft cheese that has become one of my favourite ingredients, and crispy crumbs on top, which sounds delicious,...
Salami & Mixed Vegetable Soup with Croutons
You can add any veg you like to this soup, cabbage, finely shredded and cooked for just a few minutes in the soup at the end – a handful of frozen peas and/or sweetcorn – broccoli or cauliflower stems or stalks – spinach or sorrel, wilted in at the end – sliced mushrooms
Cauliflower and chick pea soup with little dumplings
This tasty veggie soup makes use of an ingredient that perhaps you haven’t before, the stems and stalks of a cauliflower head. I actually prefer the taste of the stems to the florets!
Carrot Hummus, creamy with tahini
Sesame being a common allergen, make a hummus without tahini by substituting peanut butter. It’s just as nice without either. Mix up the spices too for different flavour variations
Flatbreads, less than 2p each. Versatile and very yummy
Try these with garlic butter on, extraordinarily good, and like yorkshire puddings, a great, cheap filler, before a main event